Gaddafi is dead. He was killed as Arab revolutionaries overran his home in the town of Sirte. The Guardian and a million other sites are reporting on the situation as it unfolds. This is welcome news and one of the high points of the Arab spring. People just want to be free. Death comes to

I’ve followed the Arab Spring with a mixture of fear and hope. I’ve followed it since the faltered Green Revolution in Iran. I’ve followed it when Wikipedia and the mass media had no name for it and just called it the Arab Uprisings. It mirrors my Future History of the World timeline quite closely. In